Alienware has rolled out a new 480Hz gaming laptop in the m17 R5, whilst also bringing a 480Hz option to the existing x17 R2. Both laptops can now be configured with a 4K display in the US (no news on a UK rollout as yet), but more interesting is the fresh option of a 1080p…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Back in April, vivo announced its T1x 4G in Malaysia and now the phone has made its way to India albeit with a few minor differences. It brings a 6.58-inch 90Hz LCD with FHD+ resolution, Snapdragon 680 chipset and a 5,000 mAh battery with 18W charging. The camera department is headline by a 50MP main…
LG’s ultra-light 16in machine gets 12th Gen Intel power and a mild makeoverRead More
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This eye-catching iD Mobile deal gets you unlimited 5G data for a mere £9/mth for the first three months of a 12-month planRead More
As a former director of business strategy for The Atlantic, Eric Rosato knows a few things about building a successful news business. Now he lends his strategic acumen to thousands of news organizations across the globe for the Google News Initiative’s Digital Growth Program. We talked to Eric about the value of journalism to society…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke Alice Moon couldn’t stop throwing up. She had made a name for herself as an online cannabis influencer, but after…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is only 18 but it’s slap-bang in the middle of a mid-life crisis, with user numbers declining and TikTok eating its Gen Z lunch. In response, the company is trying to push more video content from creators into users’ feeds, and is now shifting resources away from…
For most people, what comes to mind when they hear the word “patent” might be an invention like the lightbulb—Thomas Edison’s version rather than Sawyer and Man’s, probably—or the telephone—another hotly-contested invention between Alexander Graham Bell and the lesser-known Elisha Gray….What the average person might not be aware of is the type of patent intended…
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go 2. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Anyone who buys a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 should go into it fully aware of the laptop’s shortcomings. The first and most important is that the base model, the one that gives it its attractive $600 starting price, comes with only 4GB of non-upgradeable…